Don't escape the special characters in the Rmarkdown file-CodePudding

In my Rmarkdown file, there are some special characters I don't want to escape in the chunks (e.g. < and >).

This is a minimum example to show my problem.

title: "test-special-character"
output: md_document
date: "2022-12-02"
---

```{r test-special-character, results='asis'}
cat("<$htmlwidgets />")
```

The output in the md file is

&lt;$htmlwidgets /&gt;

What I expect is

<$htmlwidgets />

So my question is how I should not escape the special character in the Rmarkdown file.

I am using R 4.2.0 in Windows 10 with knitr 1.39 and rmarkdown 2.14.

CodePudding user response：

If you do not have to use cat, you could try this

```{r, results='asis'}
knitr::raw_html(glue::glue("<$htmlwidgets />"))
```